Tolliver v. Crawford

ARMSTRONG, Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment which dismissed an earlier appeal in a worker’s compensation action. Because we find that the hearing officer of the Louisiana Office of Worker’s Compensation had jurisdiction to dismiss the earlier appeal, and because we find no manifest error in the factual determination of the hearing officer below that the plaintiff acquiesced in the judgment to which the dismissed appeal pertained, we affirm.

Plaintiff, Cardell Tolliver, brought this action against defendant, Anheuser Busch, Inc. for workers’ compensation benefits. After a trial on the…